ah the killer lambs...

so there've been a few orphan lambs on the yard, and they were turned out into the field today.

I went out for a solo ride along the back drive, with his new back boots on, just to go to the ford and back and see how he went with them (also would rather have company to go further just now...)

the lambs were in the field on the left of the track, with YO's wife ... M stopped nad looked and i was talking to her and he moved forward and she hopped over the fence and came to talk to me... we went on our way.

on the way back, i thought he'll be fine, he's seen them..

but of course, they'd moved slightly into the shelter that had been built for them, the angle was different, the person wasn't there

 u-turn... says he....

doh!

much more forward

he was moving a lot better tonight ... much happier with life altogether ... moving better - longlining went well .. guess he was depressed with the weather, which has been awful ... and i think he's feeling the benefit of our new supply of sole cleanse spray on his feet. we need a long dry spell really to really get it sorted...

i didn't try the hoof boots - far to late to think about riding when i got there, and  no one to go with (as i thought.. wrongly, as it goes, but there we go..) ...

lunging more lunging

yesterday with me, and he really couldn't be bothered at all.

and Jean, it's really not my body language - I've been lunging for 20 years now, and can happily lunge my mate's difficult gelding that her groom can't lunge.. i just can't lunge my current horse...

and he wasn't that keen on doing the same for G tonight either... but by tonight he was probably thinking "enough already" LOL

the good news was that the new supply of sole cleanse arrived, we'd just about run out and hadn't been able to put enough in, AND the other hoof boot, so tomorrow can boot up behind and see if I can get some company for a ride... subject to the weather, of course, which has gone back to being pants...

longline improvement

in that he was much more keen to actually keep up a decent walk, and thus more able to seek the contact.... partly, i think, as I improve with it as well.... also the flirty mare had him interested, which meant i had to work harder to keep his mind on me, which shows, i would suppose, that i hadn't been doing enough to move him on before.....

bath time

followed by a lunge session.

We decided that it was hot enough to bath him .... outside the stable is a regular sun trap as well, so we both went to do that job!  think he quite enjoyed it, and my goodness did he need it!

after that, G lunged him.....

he went very nicely, trot both reins... why he won't do it for me is beyond both of us, i did suggest that perhaps i ought to take a recording of her voice?  bizarre it is..

and amazingly, he DIDN'T roll when turned out later .... or at least if he did, he waited until we were long gone!

after the hack

the roll!

winter at the end of May

was what we have had...

9 degrees with added wind chill, and rain....

:-(

forecast to be warm tomorrow, though - believe it when i see it, but the wind dropped after i got home tonight so there is some hope that the forecast might be right...